POURQUOI PAS - FRENCH - 1908

The Pourquoi-Pas? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
She completed the second Charcot expedition of the Arctic regions from 1908
to 1910. Charcot died aboard when she was wrecked on 16 September 1936.
Of the forty men on board, only one survived. A four-masted bark designed
for polar exploration, equipped with a motor and containing three laboratories
and a library. It was built at Saint-Malo.